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...from the low, buff-colored wooden Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign policy. Most cautiously, most meticulously was the speech prepared...
Like a prestidigitator, Mr. Bennett produced a blue bag from his coat tails. Out of the bag came a big silver plate. Mr. Bennett handed it to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin took out a red silk hankerchief. polished the plate carefully, slowly. A boy came in breathless with another blue bag containing another big silver plate. This plate Mr. Baldwin presented to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Baldwin then made a speech praising the weather. Mr. Havenga made a speech pointing out that nobody was under the illusion that he was going home with everything he wanted. Mr. Chatterjee made a speech...
...annually. An infant industry (before the War practically all were imported), U. S. dolls are protected by a tariff ranging up to 70%. The business is highly specialized. One of the largest units, Margon Corp., makes only eyes, teeth-&-tongues, voices. Most dolls' hair is mohair or artificial silk, but eye lashes are real hair, imported from nuns in certain Italian convents at $8 a pound. Though many a doll is sold naked or equipped merely with a diaper and safety pin, complete wardrobes are available. In Cleveland in 1928 a heavy demand was found for dolls' trousseaux...
...intimate, not particularly respectful description of the royal train. Said the Mail: "Not even Hollywood stars or Argentine millionaires own more luxurious railroad saloons. The King's smoking compartment [is fitted] with apple green leather and fiddleback mahogany, while the Queen's boudoir saloon has paler green silk upholstery and Jacobean oak furniture. Her sleeping compartment is decorated in blue and there is a pink marble bathroom adjoining." ¶ Not to be outdone by the railroads, Scottish bus companies began uniforming their conductors in kilts and blazers embroidered with the companies' initials. Chided the Manchester Guardian: "From...
...barter transactions are often tariff-free. Barterer Neidecker hopes to see his company become a powerful factor in intergovernmental tariff negotiations. He is now negotiating for a barter of 200,000 tons of Chilean nitrate for U. S. gasoline, has his eye on unwieldy stocks of Brazilian coffee, Japanese silk...